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Hound Dog (Elvis Presley)

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“Hound Dog ” is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally recorded by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton on August 13, 1952 in Los Angeles and released by Peacock Records in February 1953. “Hound Dog” was Thornton’s only hit record, spending 14 weeks in the R&B charts, including seven weeks at #1. It sold between 500,000 and 2 million copies.

Credited with contributing to the evolution of R&B into rock, Thornton’s recording of “Hound Dog” is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ‘s “500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll”, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in February 2013.Since its composition, “Hound Dog” has been recorded more than 250 times, and is one of the best known Rock & Roll songs. The best-known version of “Hound Dog” is the July 1956 recording by Elvis Presley that is ranked no. 19 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Presley’s version, which sold an estimated 10 million copies globally, was his best-selling song, and “an emblem of the rock ‘n’ roll revolution”. It was simultaneously no. 1 on the US pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956, and topped the pop chart for 11 weeks_a record that stood for 36 years. Presley’s original 1956 RCA recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988, and is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s “500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll”.Since its release, “Hound Dog” has been at the center of many lawsuits, including disputes over authorship, royalties, and copyright infringement by the many answer songs released by such artists as Rufus Thomas and Roy Brown. From the 1970s onward, the song has been prominently featured in numerous films, most notably in Grease, Forrest Gump, Lilo & Stitch, A Few Good Men, Hounddog, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Nowhere Boy.

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Don`t expect your classical instructor to teach you only popular music. Nevertheless, traditional music learnt alongside the fun stuff might be of a huge help in understanding the various parts of keyboard music. Traditional music can instruct you so much about rhythm, structure, phrasing and additional important elements.

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